Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-07
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
An Interesting Summary of the
important Occurrences OF
the Week.
A Budget Of News Cleaned From the
Latest Dispatches From Far
and Near.
ADVICES BY TELEGRAM.

Della Houck, an innocent looking girl Is
years of age, left Jersee City to join friends
at Ludden, d. T. While on The Grand Trunk
train between Windsor and Chicago she met
John Shannon, the train news-dealer, who
''was very friendly and VINO completely
won over the unsophis ticated girl by his bold
ness. Della had but $40 left when the train
reached Chicago, and Shannon promised to
secure her ticket to her destination for this
amount Shannon took her to q State street
hotel and told her to wait while he went to
see about the ticket Returning soon after he
reported the ticket office closed. He took her
| to room in tho hotel, assaulted and robbed
her of her $40 and left The girl managed to
get back to the Grand Trunk, where she told
her story to the officers. who took care of her
and arrested Shannon, who is held TO the
criminal cour'.
| Information has been received at Method
ist headquarters in Cincinnati that the ques-
ton of admitting women to sit in the next
general conference of the church as lay dele
gates will be presented, The Nebraska con-
ference elected Mrs Annie Newman lay
delegate, and several other western confer
! ternate lay delegates.
The Farmers Recieu published in this
weeks issue an estimate of the corn crop of
1887, which it places at about 800 OoO, 900
bushels.
! ST. Louis dispatches report the arrival of
multitudes of Grand Army men from all parts
of the country.
In some of the counties in Michigan the
people are reported to be providing themselves
with local telegraph lines as substitute for
the telephone, which is found to be 100 costly
luxury In one county it is reported there
Is sort OF cooperative company, owning
ove' thirty miles OF wire between terminal
points eighteen miles apart. The wires arc
carried to farmers houses, villages, etc, and
are found 10 be convenient and useful
Miller, commissioner of internal revenue,
denies that he intends making raid on brew
ers and making an analysis of their beer AS
the brewers all pay their taxes it is not his
| duty to make such examination.
Colonel Hin ,hes- Hsllett against whom
| charges OF scandalou- nature were recently
brought, inform d the committee of the con
servative party that he is willing to resign his
| scat in parliament. The committee will &C
cept the offer.
Hon Cyrus foreman, of Osage, one of
| the leading citizen of II rlhern Iowa, died tho
other day at his home, aged Is. In 1878 he
was appointed one of the board of capitol com
missioners that had charge of the construc-
ton of the new state-house, and he served
Until the work was completed.
During an Irish eviction in which the
military and police assisted, OH Col. Meadows
estate. near Limerick, the tenant name
Lane, made stubborn resistance. Mrs Lane,
with poker, split open tho skull of Inspector
Riley. Mrs. Lane her husband and brother,
wcre arrested. When the police threatened
his place Lane dared thom to come. When
they advanced he fought them With y club.
His brotler-ln-law assisted him They We're
| finally overcome by the police. Their arms
were held and they were beaten into a condi-
ton OF non-rcsls ance with the butt end OF
guns
A Washington dispatch says those author-
lied to speak refuse to say anything about it,
but it is easy to see that some change in the
Chicago post-of1ice is expected soon afte,
Poslmastcr-G Gen eral Villas returns from Wis
consin. The story in circulation in Wash
inston is that Col Villas has been looking after
the Chicago Office during his stay in Madison
and that he has become greatly dissatisfied
with the condition of affairs, and believes that
with some one else at the head of the of1ic
the many lit e factions that have grown III,
could have been squeche'.